I have lots of yard waste. In fact after getting our new septic field installed I think I literally have a ton of torn down bushes and small trees that I need to get rid of. Last weekend I had the kids help me move them to the small wooded area behind our house, but I'm not happy with it because I think I have a rather large brush fire in the making if we get a dry, hot summer. Thankfully there's a solution at hand.
Last week my buddy Fig told me he'd purchased a burn barrel for $10 from Shouse's near the corner of Yadkinville and Reynolda Roads. "A burn barrel!" I thought. I don't have space to do an open burn of my big pile of stuff, but I figured I could burn a little every night in a barrel. Yesterday when I was out in that neck of the woods I stopped by Shouse's to see if they had any more barrels. Lucky for me they'd just gotten some barrels that had been used to ship molasses, so they used the biggest can opener I've ever seen to cut the top off and loaded the now open barrel in the back of the minivan for me. Since the inside of the barrel still had some molasses coating it our old minivan smells pretty darn nice right now, and I assume that the first couple of burns are going to make our yard smell like a molasses cookie factory.
Here's Shouse's location via Google Maps:
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